The images that exist of the lesbian woman are stereotypes generally. At the beginning of century the lesbian woman like an older, generally experienced and very astute woman was described. Often she was a woman teacher at young ladies’ school where intensional was trying to seduce young and innocent girls.
During the decade of seventy the imágen of the lesbian woman like a masculine cut woman to the monkfish appears and with a strong aversion to the men and activist in the new motion feminist.
The purpose of those defamatory images is above all the one of intimidating. The woman teacher of young ladies’ school constitutes a threat against the paper that plays the woman, to the being single and independent economically. The same thing happens to the femenista that fixes its without the men.
But will there be some in these no defamatory images truely? If, the contexts, the lesbian women in different epochs have turned to different means or places where only they found themselves womanly. The school for young ladies, the motion can be femenista, civil defense’s, the scouts’s or the football team’s feminine body. In these means the women have found comradeship, friendship and intimacy at the edge of their sexual inclination.
But also they exist, for a long time clubs and associations directly for lesbians one of the firsts was Diana, that he was founded on the fifties.
The men’s life gay constitutes a challenge for society
The fact that the men gay be more visible than the lesbians in society, it does not mean that I be easier being gay. On the contrary, since it is right in the homosexual men’s case when the relation between visibility and prejudice becomes more patent.
This has his expression when for example, goes out to thrash homosexuals, boys that look for the places where the homosexual men meet with the only intention of intimidating and making damage.
In all the epochs they have created hostile images in connection with the men gay, and especially in connection with your sexuality. Of periodic shape, the fear to the masculine homosexuality has been reflected through long and intense social debates.
It is the case for example of the debate on the homosexual plotting during the fifties, and of the case Ebbe Carlsson ( a man, busybody in politics, the fact that he showed up openly like homosexual and as affected of AIDS ) in eighty .
The existent resistance toward homosexuality so much masculine like feminine he has his origins in the same preconceived ideas. So much men as the female homosexuals constitute, with their very existence a challenge to the sexual roles, the traditional family, and the heterosexual monopoly on love and relations.
A notable part of the gay culture, tour in connection with the sexuality same. Places like parks, public restrooms and living rooms of movie theater are pornography, examples of places all over the world where the men gay they can find themselves to establish sexual contact.
Besides this, there exists a culture of bars and discotheques where it is possible to socialize and establishing contacts for more durable relations.
The society has tried, through of the years controlling of different shapes the homosexual men’s sexuality. During the decade of fifty this was done through police roundups against parties of gay people; Today the sample of the same fear hit myself, when saunas and clubs of videos close.
Before one pleaded like escusa, the desire of protecting the young. Today the escusa is AIDS. Of what in reality he talks to each other nowadays as then it becomes of the same lack of understanding toward the gay culture.
The circumstance that gay man’s search of contact, constitute one of the most visible factors between the ways of relating to each other, often hide the fact that the men gay just like lesbians and heterosexual they live in long couple’s accounts.
During the last decades the VIH and AIDS have come to influír on a lot of men’s life gay. Many are them the fact that the lovers, friends have lost victims of disease, other ones suffer it themselves.
For the homosexual man it is necessary to learn how to live with the VIH and to learn to protect oneself to himself and to other ones.
